quahog
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Most often thought to be from Narragansett poquaûhock (“hard clam”), or perhaps from pohkeni (“dark”) hogki (“shell”). Alternatively from Mohegan-Pequot p'quaghhaug (“hard clam”) or another Algonquian language.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.hɒɡ/,[1][2] /ˈkwəʊ.hɒɡ/,[2] /ˈkwɑː.hɒɡ/[2]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkwɔ.hɔɡ/,[1][3][4] /ˈkwɔ.hɑɡ/;[1][3][4] /ˈkwɑ.hɔɡ/,[3] /ˈkwɑ.hɑɡ/[3]
- Hyphenation: qua‧hog
Noun
[edit]quahog (plural quahogs)
- An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
- The largest size of such an edible clam, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
- A similar edible clam, of species Arctica islandica, found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters.
- Synonyms: ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam, Icelandic cyprine
Alternative forms
[edit]- quahaug (slightly more common until the 1950s, now uncommon)
- quohog (regional US; uncommon nationally)
- cohog (regional US; uncommon nationally)
Synonyms
[edit]- (Mercenaria mercenaria): hard clam, chowder clam, round clam; count neck (smallest), littleneck (small), cherrystone (smaller medium), topneck (larger medium)
- (largest size of quahog): chowder clam
Verb
[edit]quahog (third-person singular simple present quahogs, present participle quahogging, simple past and past participle quahogged)
- (intransitive) To dig for quahogs.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 “quahog”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “quahog”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 “quahog”, in Collins English Dictionary; from Michael Agnes, editor, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, Cleveland, Oh.: Wiley, 2010, →ISBN.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 “quahog”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Linguistic Atlas of New England (1939)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “quahog”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes IV (P–Simulant), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.: "quahog"
- “quahog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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